Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

Fear is a noose that binds until it strangles.

We learn the rope of life by untying its knots.

Most novices picture themselves as masters - and are content with the picture. This is why there are so few masters.

Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it.

We never know we are beings till we love. And then it is we know the powers and potentialities of human existence.

We do not posses imagination enough to sense what we are missing.

In a sick world, it is the first duty of the artist to get well.

No eyes that have seen beauty ever lose their sight.

Thunder blossoms gorgeously above our heads, Great, hollow, bell-like flowers

People mistake their limitations for high standards.

When there is no middle class, and the poor greatly exceed in number, troubles arise, and the state soon comes to an end.

Chance sometimes opens the door, but luck belongs to the good players.

I've been doing this since I was 10 years old, inhabiting different people and playing different roles.

Above all, the only thing you have to heal is the present thought. Get that right and the whole picture will change into one of harmony and joy.

Britain needs a simpler tax system which is simple to understand, where there are no loop-holes, where the very rich do not avoid tax by employing expensive accountants

The joy of surmounting obstacles which once seemed unremovable, and pushing the frontier of accomplishment further — what joy is there like unto it?

Time, time will heal the wound.

Just remember: Surviving is the best revenge, no matter what the disaster has been.

It is hard to overstate the debt we owe to the men and women of genius.

To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.